Dev Blog #12
over 2 years ago – Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 04:53:15 AM

Tomorrow ... tomorrow ...
 

As I'm writing this, it's roughly 24 hours until Sunshine Manor launches on Steam and to say we're both nervous is an understatement. This has been a wild ride, and we've put absolutely everything we could into Sunshine Manor and can't wait for you to explore the old Aitken House.

To think when we began developing the game it was completely different to how it ended up, we had no demon realm, no costumes, no mini chapters ... all of that was because of you, our wonderful backers!

So thank you, from the bottom of our cold dead hearts ... thank you!

By now you should have received your keys for Sunshine Manor and the Soundtrack via Backerkit, keep those safe and use them first thing tomorrow morning to add the game to your inventory.  

What happens next?

First of all we're going to take a small well-deserved break from coding and sprites. The past few weeks alone we've both been working almost 20 hour days to get everything we wanted into the game. 

Once we're rested a little more, we'll come back with Sunshine Manor 1.1 which will include a few extras we've conjured up since we uploaded to Steam. 

Then ... porting for consoles begins for Sunshine Manor (it's already underway for Camp Sunshine) and localization too and we'll keep you informed when we have exciting news to share about those. 

Thank You!

Honestly we're humbled that you spent your money on our game, and we've thrown ourselves into this as hard as we possibly could. There are so many secrets in Sunshine Manor that we've probably forgotten some of them as well ... so thank you! 

Dev Blog #11
over 2 years ago – Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 08:44:44 PM

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Dev Blog #10
over 2 years ago – Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 02:52:43 PM

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Dev Blog #9
over 2 years ago – Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 11:13:15 AM

Blimey, October is looming! 

We’re delighted to tell you that we have now begun in-house testing of Sunshine Manor as the core game is complete, and we’re currently going haywire trying to find all of the weirdest bugs we possibly can.

Once we have that out of the way, then we’ll move on to our lovely beta testers from our Discord channel, which will no doubt put us to the test! 

Meanwhile, we wanted to show you two cool new things.

Over the course of development, and thanks to your support, we’ve been able to spend a lot more time working on the sprites for Sunshine Manor, and we think this new psychic attack is now way more impressive.

Oh, and we couldn’t just leave it there … so check out one of the costumes you unlocked!

You’ll be able to find cool costumes squirreled away around the Mansion, and each one will unlock a cool new power for you to use too. Some do more damage, while some provide invulnerability for a short while. Gotta catch 'em all!

Backerkit & Pledge Surveys

Later this month, we'll be sending out the test for our Backerkit surveys, so a randomly chosen few will receive the first emails for it. This is to make sure everything is tip-top and in ship-shape before we open everything up for the big final push.

You'll also find a few cool new items on the store available for backers! We won't spoil the surprise right now … but be quick because everything we have is in strictly limited quantities!

Thank you again for your support. We really couldn't be doing this without all of you!

Dev Blog #8
almost 3 years ago – Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 10:16:20 PM

Happy July everyone! It's currently it’s beautiful outside and yet we’re crammed in front of our machines working feverishly on Sunshine Manor.

Just a quick announcement before we get on with the update: the Pre-Orders for the Kickstarter Edition of Sunshine Manor are closing on July 15th, so you have around a day and change left!. Once this has been closed, we’ll work on finalizing the surveys to all backers where you’ll be able to finalize your pledge and even pick up a few cool add-ons as well!

New T-Shirts

We have a fantastic t-shirt available for fans of Camp Sunshine that’s available in Adult and Children's sizes that features amazing artwork by the amazing Alley Cat Graphics

Now this t-shirt doesn’t need any introduction, we’ve teamed up with a superb UK t-shirt manufacturer to offer a limited quantity of t-shirts featuring the artwork by Graham Humphries too!

Live Streams

We’ll also be live streaming some music creation as we draw to the end of the development of Sunshine Manor, where you can ask questions about the game, throw us a follow at our Twitch Channel so that you can know when we're going live!

Additional Content

Thanks to your support and pledges, we’ve been able to dedicate a lot more time to Sunshine Manor outside of our day jobs! As a result of this, we’ve managed to add in a whole host of content from the stretch goals that we didn’t meet during the Kickstarter campaign - the ideas were just too good so we thought we’d do them all! This includes extra costumes, chapters, hidden areas, puzzles, and more! Sunshine Manor would not be on its way if not thanks to your support, and we're very thankful for this.